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This being a presidential election year, Democrats hope that a higher voter turnout could make up some of the ground that O’Rourke ceded in the 2018 race.

Australia is the only ex-British colony without one, and many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people emphasise that they never ceded their sovereignty or land to the Crown.

Biden, 81 and the nation’s oldest sitting president, ceded the Democratic ticket to Harris, who turns 60 on Sunday, after concerns about his age and acuity mounted following a disastrous debate against Trump in June.

After a relatively brief spell as a Dutch colony, Taiwan was administered by China's Qing dynasty, before it was ceded to Tokyo after Japan won the First Sino-Japanese War.

Spain continues to assert its sovereignty over Gibraltar, which it ceded to Britain in 1713.